SEVENTY-five people attended the Nottingham Socialist Action Miners' day school last Saturday. In. attendance were representatives from South Derbyshire, South Yorkshire, from the Leicester 'Dirty Thirty', and Coalville railworkers.
Despite success defeating the unle LUOU meeting was one of real determination to continue the fight.
voteen Humber Sue Petney, women from Blidworth pained that the defence of imprisoned miners provided, a focus for organisation among all those who had supported Roy Butlin, NUR, highlighted ICH moves the British Railways board, to CURL tinue the victimisation of railworkers because of their refusal to coal during the dispute.
The British Rail board are unreatening une loss ol jobs at Coalville and evidence is already coming to light that they are planning close the depot meeting heard speakers Newham 7, and the Censolidarity Amental. campaign. John Ross spoke for Socialist Action
ference by the Liverpool black caucus.
branches less than last year Britain for sixty years.
JOHN 'ROSS looks at the Grant's violent outburst against the lessons dynamic of the miners' strike.
For bally on the left Militant's politics seem to represent a paradox. Militant combines extreme sectarianism, resolute hostility to black sections, opSUS LOn lo lne demaros or the Action Committee in the Labour tack launched by Militant on Arthur Scargill and his leadership of the miners' strike. It also saw an open clash between the black community and Militant at the 300-strong fringe meeting organised at YS conThe LPYS conference itself was attended by 50 and with far fewer miners present than a year previously. All this after 12 months of the greatest peace time class struggle in reasons for Ted phasises — remains consistent with capitalist politics capitalist domination or tie working class.
Lenin of working class is precisely bourgeois politics of the name used for Marxists at the time - JR) not confine tense ve exclusively the economic struggle, but that they must not allov the organisation of economic CADUSUIC become the predominant part of their activities Lenin's words: 'Working Cass Consciousted cannot be genuine conSCousTes. unless the workers are trained to resny, oppression, violence, and abuse no matter wha class is affected.' Narrow It means, In Lenin's phrases, that socialists will *never be able to develop apology for imperialism Just as the economists of blessed memory slid from recognition to apology for capitalism).
Imperialist economism, in addition takes the form not simply of direct apologies for imperialism but diso ot rhetoric used to cover up a retusal to tight against the imperialist system li Dallicular a retusal to consistently oppose the imperialism of one's own state.
Imperialist economLenin's words, ontinuall engages in of the 'socialism alone ''wav' out' cover over its refusal to The M To Socialist Action 19 April 1985